Wide Angle

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Wide Angle is a room for dialogue: writers, artists, scientists, intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers and other society actors, from different geographical and cultural backgrounds, meet here all together to discuss topical issues.

Acting as a forum for international debate, Wide Angle deals with themes of universal interest and reflects the diversity of cultural sensitivities in the world.

Wide Angle accompanies UNESCO in accomplishing it's overall mission: to question the world, to meet the challenges of our time, and to guide public opinion along the paths of peace.

Articles express the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of UNESCO.

In focus

James Delgado and Michel L’Hour: underwater cultural heritage needs more protection

The largest museum in the world rests under the water, beneath the oceans, lakes and rivers of every nation and on the high seas. From fossil evidence and early human settlements now drowned by rising seas after the ice age, to ancient cities and harbor, and millions of shipwrecks, this heritage speaks to who we are as humanity."It is an essential evidence of humanity’s past not yet put at its rightful place in the public conscience", according to famous archeologists James Delgado (Canada/USA) and Michel L’Hour (France).